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June 3, 2010

G55: Athletics 9, Red Sox 8

In the third inning, Victor Martinez walked and Kevin Youkilis doubled to left-center. As you know, Martinez's toe is still bothering him and he is not running well at all. I guess Bogar forgot, because even with no one out, Bogar waved him around -- and Martinez was gunned down easily even though the throw was off-line.

In the very next inning, Darnell McDonald singled, then turned an ankle diving back to the bag on a throw to first. The trainer came out to check on him and McDonald stayed in the game. After Bill Hall singled McDonald to second, Jeremy Hermida singled to right. Bogar sent McDonald -- who was thrown out at the plate.

Was reacting to your description of the Joyce situation. I was wondering if they were having some kind of official apology for blowing the call. I guess it's just a gesture to let Galarraga bring out the card to Joyce. Still, better than nothing.

I was uh, 6 miles from the SC border at one point today. I actually had to drive my sister to the airport this morning so she could fly to Pocono, PA for the race this weekend and HELLO HEIDI! I've missed you! ...and got kinda close to the SC border.

John, I'm with you on the feeling of anger one gets at the hypocrisy when those kinds of things come out. And it seems to be true that the nastier the rhetoric, the greater the chance is that the pundit in question is a self-hater.

Especially in the case of a final out of the game, a wrong call should be able to be overturned. Hard to do at other parts of the game because of the flow of the game. Reversing one call after the fact throws the entire game and its credibility off-hinge. But there should be very, very unique and rare instances like this one, with conclusive video evidence, to overturn a call.

Laura, are you ironing? I know that's a favorite of yours. It's something I never do. I do vacuum, pick up dog poop (outside, thankfully), clean kitty litter, etc., etc., but no ironing. We wear wrinkled clothes.

Ironing was something my mother hated; hence, she never taught me how. Most of what I wear does not require ironing (jeans? t-shirts?), and work stuff gets dry cleaned. I know some people iron sheets and t-shirts, even underwear, but I don't get that. I take my stuff out of the dryer and fold them neatly. Tada---no (or few) wrinkles!

As they say, to each his/her own. Every time I have ironed something (maybe once a year, probably less often), the thing I iron looks like I ironed it---creases in the wrong place, wrinkles in places I cannot reach, maybe a burn here or there. :)

Everyone seems to know people (or once known them) who iron socks, underwear, sheets. Yet no one I know even irons! I think these sock and underwear ironers are related to the Easter Bunny and Rumplestilskin.

Re ironing: I have no idea whether lots of other people iron. It's something that never seems to come up in conversation. But I can tell you that my daughter and son-in-law are BIG ironers (she did not learn from me, obviously). First thing they do when they unpack is ask for an iron to get the wrinkles out of their packed clothing. We made sure we had a new iron and ironing board just for them when we moved.

Ofer, I'd love to hear your thoughts on what is going on there. It doesn't have to be here on the game thread, but I am curious about what a young Israeli thinks.

Like Allan said, I've been posting on WMTC. Although I wouldn't exactly call it what a young Israeli thinks, or even what I think... I guess it's a very specific part of what I think. Anyway, I'd be more than happy to talk about it, but yeah, here's not the place. I'm not sure WMTC is, either.

Your profits are intangible, but what about your stock value? How will I resell it on the NYSE if it's value crashes? I have a grandchild to worry about. Perhaps if you go public and sell it on the open market, I can buy a few shares for the grandkid. Who will unfortunately be a Mets fan.

Amy, don't believe him. I heard the blog bubble is gonna burst soon. I know it's tempting, you see all those people going out of their mom's basement with big wads of cash- but trust me: it's too risky.

Huh, someone else owns that domain name? Yeah, I guess you could have a fight with them about a trademark since you are not in the socks business. Then you'd have to deal with the Red Sox also, I suppose. So yeah, probably not worth the money to get that right.

Just to clarify on the trademark issue, if you use a mark (name, logo, etc) to identify goods or services that you distribute, you can get ownership of that mark against anyone else who uses it on similar goods or services in a way that causes confusion in the marketplace. So you could own the mark, if someone else (the socks company, the Red Sox) did not claim prior use themselves. I'd represent you on your claims, but you'd have to give me all your profits. :)